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April 19th, 2008, 04:01 PM
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Re: Gath, dev diary or something
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Kristoffer O said:
I've thought about that and I'm almost finished. Made a couple of new ones today, but you might expect them soon. I think there are about 80 or 90 or so for you to read. I've changed many of them since last time.
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Are you talking only about Hinnom/Ashdod/Gath or also the Ulmish, Ermor and Abysian units? From the last email conversation on that, I was left with the understanding that the HAG units were very much still subject to change, so I would reread all of those in any case. Looking forward to it anyhow.
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April 19th, 2008, 04:07 PM
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Re: Gath, dev diary or something
In counterpoint to Sombre's, Sephiroth is the main villain of FF7. A very typical bisyoonen lead, he is mainly liked for his looks and his general amorality.
He generally has great appeal to those who play console RPGs. He has one black wing, and he either popularized or was popularized by the final boss music in FF7, 'One Winged Angel'.
An understanding of Japanese culture can find deeper reasons for his popularity, at least among Japanese.
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April 19th, 2008, 05:05 PM
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Re: Gath, dev diary or something
Never heard of spooky sprites. What is the program you use to draw the sprites, KO?
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April 19th, 2008, 05:33 PM
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Re: Gath, dev diary or something
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Never heard of spooky sprites. What is the program you use to draw the sprites, KO?
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In-house program developed by JK, originally for Atari ST or something. From Google groups archives, comp.sys.atari.announce:
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Johan Karlsson Aug 12 1995, 10:00 am
Spooky Sprites is a true colour sprite creator for atari falcon. It's freeware and has been uploaded to ftp.cnam.fr.
Some of the changes from the the last version are:
The largest change is that you can use the sprite editor in double pixel mode (768*240) if you use a rgb monitor or tv. The video mode is changed in the preferences menu. Switching between ntsc and pal on rgb now works as it's supposed to do (you cannot do this on vga monitors). Doubling and halving of sprite width is now implemented. This allows you to convert medium resolution sprites to low res and vice versa. New paste mode Merge. Pictures can now be saved in a run length encoded format. Faster sprite loading. Flood fill added. Can be installed as TRS application and load sprite files automatically. You may now create a picture containing all sprites. Some multitasking during the most time consuming operations. Lots of minor bugs removed.
Hope you like it!
Johan
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April 19th, 2008, 05:43 PM
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Re: Gath, dev diary or something
Huh. Interesting.
Followup questions:
Do you recommend it?
Is it available to the public?
Would it work on XP?
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April 19th, 2008, 06:14 PM
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Re: Gath, dev diary or something
I do not recommend it, since there is no documentation whatsoever. But it is a quite good sprite program. At least when you are used to it. Gabriella got an intro and used it when she made the Bogarus sprites, and she said she liked it. So it might not be that bad.
It is not available.
It works on linux. Once there was a windows version, but it was never used IIRC.
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April 19th, 2008, 06:37 PM
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Re: Gath, dev diary or something
Had the answers been yes, yes, and yes I would have given it a try.
Ah well, I'll use gimp to scrape by.
Thanks for the reply.
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April 20th, 2008, 06:22 PM
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Re: Gath, dev diary or something
Ha! I'm fininshed!
All in all there seems to be exactly 100 new unit entries. A few are different shapes of the same monsters, but still, 100
Soon beta testing will begin. I imagine there will be some balancing to do. The earlier Rephaim might pose some problems, since there are few units to compare them with. Fomorians and Niefel Giants come closest I suspect.
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April 20th, 2008, 09:36 PM
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Re: Gath, dev diary or something
Is there a new member of the 500 Club to compete with Niefel Jarls, Fomorian Kings and Dai Oni?
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April 21st, 2008, 02:14 AM
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Re: Gath, dev diary or something
Yep there is. Two actually. One is more of a warrior, one more of a mage. And then there are two 400 guys in MA.
The 500 guys come with a price though. They eat a lot. Including population and their lesser kin
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